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...invited representatives of the Los Angeles-based group to Cambridge to participate in the ceremony, in which Snezhana B. Zlatinova ’07 and Ludwig “Matt” Otto ’07—who began dating after meeting during freshman orientation??were fake-married. “We really wanted to demonstrate some of the great things about Korean culture in small, warm ceremony,” Yan said. “Especially in the wake of the V-Tech incident, we thought it was important to remind people that there...
...Harvard College handbook states that “any discrimination based on…sexual orientation??is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University,” while the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” protocol requires the discharge of openly gay and lesbian service members...
...policy.But according to Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76, in an ruling issued Monday, Congress doesn’t even need to give the schools a choice.Harvard and other law schools require that employers sign nondiscrimination pledges—which include sexual orientation??as a condition for gaining access to the schools’ career placement offices. The military has refused to sign such pledges because it prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving.Roberts wrote that Congress’ enumerated powers—those expressly delineated in the Constitution?...
Many, if not most, well-meaning people in modern societies see education as the rightful engine for social progress. Underlying this belief is the modern conviction that merit—rather than characteristics such as birth, tradition, race, gender, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation??should determine advancement up the social “ladder” or hierarchy. Accordingly, the answer to inequality to which many schools, including Harvard, offer or aspire is need-blind admissions: If you are academically good enough, you will get in regardless of your financial status...
According to Halley, the phrase “sexual orientation?? usually refers to the gender of one’s sexual partner. “Many transgenders or transexuals stick with their ‘original’ sexual orientation,” she wrote in an e-mail. “And many ‘time’ things in such a way that their most vulnerable transition period is also a time of their not having sexual relations with anyone...